I discovered an annoying characteristic of Technorati. When it's spiders visits your site for new posts it looks ONLY at the homepage. If your homepage (or default page in a subdomain) is not the blog's main page then your posts will not be picked up. I have a blog in which Technorati was showing my posts just fine. But because of the nature of my blog I added a splash page and made IT the homepage via the htaccess file. The day I made this splash page the home page, Technorati stopped showing my posts. This went on for several weeks until I figured out what was happening. Technorati could not see my posts because it's spiders were going to the splash page ... which has no blog information on it. To verify, I removed the splash page, which resulted in my blog's main page once again becoming the website's home page. Sure enough my subsequent posts appeared on Technorati. I put back the splash page because my industry needs it .. and of course no longer does any new posts show up on Technorati. With this long-winded intro as background, does anyone know what the user agent identifiers are for the Technorati spiders? I want to be able to identify the bots in my htaccess file and redirect them to my blog's main page. My hope is that once again my posts will start appearing in Technorati. Thanks to all who read through this long post.
Here'a an oldish post about this, but it may help... http://bopuc.levendis.com/weblog/archives/-2006/04/16/blocking_technorati.php
Thanks. I just read the post. Looks like there may be many IPs that I would have to redirect .. with possibly more being created. It would sure be easier with a User Agent. I've looked for a more recent list of IPs and could not find one. I've also posted a message in technorati's help forum .. but I don't expect much. I thought that most big, reputable search engines made available their bot's names. I could find nothing on Technorati.